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Definition of Sea trout

1. Noun. Flesh of marine trout that migrate from salt to fresh water.

2. Noun. Any of several sciaenid fishes of North American coastal waters.

3. Noun. Silvery marine variety of brown trout that migrates to fresh water to spawn.

Definition of Sea trout

1. Noun. A fish of the species ''Salmo trutta'' morpha ''trutta'', closely related to salmon and a sub species of brown trout. It is lighter in colour than the brown trout, and lives in salt water, returning to fresh water only to spawn. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Sea trout

1. Any one of several species of true trouts which descend rivers and enter the sea after spawning, as the European bull trout and salmon trout, and the eastern American spotted trout. The common squeteague, and the spotted squeteague. A California fish of the family Chiridae, especially Hexagrammus decagrammus; called also spotted rock trout. See Rock trout, under Rock. A California sciaenoid fish (Cynoscion nobilis); called also white sea bass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Sea trout

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Our New Alaska by Charles Hallock (1886)
"The sea trout, identical with the Canadian sea trout, and spotted in the same way with blue ... The sea trout takes the trolling spoon readily in the bays. ..."

2. Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces by Henry William Herbert (1859)
"We now come to the Sea-Trout Flies — from Nos. 1 to 4 we may set down as the regular size for America, Nos. 2 to 6 being those in use in Ireland, ..."

3. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1848)
"On examination, he found about one-filth of each shoal to be what he considered sea-trout. Wisely regarding this as a favorable opportunity of ascertaining ..."

4. Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters by Alfred Marshall Mayer (1883)
"SEA-TROUT FISHING. BY AR MACDONOUGH. WHAT is a sea-trout? A problem, to begin with, though quite a minor one, since naturalists have for some time past kept ..."

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